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To: TimF who wrote (28267)	9/8/2006 4:09:52 PM
From: JohnM	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 541300

Tim, none of that is evidence. Polls concerning the political leanings of American faculties are a completely different topic than the question of whether the academy is systemically undermining its mission to teach/encourage/stimulate critical thinking by a "strong bias" against it. If you argued that it doesn't do a terribly good job of that because of a misbegotten commitment to publish or perish, we would definitely have a conversation. But not because ideologues have taken over the industry. As for Churchill, if you feel you have not been using him as some sort of anecdotal evidence of the problems that bother you in the academy, fine.

To: TimF who wrote (28267)	9/9/2006 12:11:20 PM
From: Suma	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 541300

Just as easily I could talk about Liberty University or Bob Jones University where the students NOT taught to think so much as to digest the platform that the school represents.. Have had friends go there so know what kind of education emerges. It is strongly church based dogma with a great deal of anti everything that is not part of what they deem important to know. And some of that is not even believable in the most unbiased of minds.